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TABLE OF GREEK AND ROMAN ARTISTS.

The following list and dates of eminent artists of Ancient Greece and Italy has been taken from Julius Sillig's Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity.

Olymp.

B.C.

Names of Artists, &c.

I.

XVIII.

776

Dædalus of Athens. Smilis of Ægina.
Eucheir I. discovers the art of painting.

Dibutades of Corinth, and his daughter Core, first make
plaster-casts.

Philocles the Egyptian, or Cleanthes the Corinthian, invent painting in outline. Their contemporaries are Arego, Crato of Sicyon, and Saurias of Samos.

Ardices the Corinthian, and Telephanes I. the Sicyonian, exercise the art of painting.

(The precise dates of the above facts are uncertain.) About this period flourished Chersiphro of Cnossus, the architect, and Telecles and Theodorus I., sons of Rhocus. In a rather later period Metagenes I., son of Chersiphro, Pæonius I. of Ephesus, and Learchus of Rhegium.

708 Shortly before this time Bularchus, the painter, appeared in Asia.

XXV.

680

XXIX.

664

XXX.

660

XXXV.

640

XLII.

612

XLVIII.

588

Glaucus 1. invents the soldering of iron.

Eucheir II. and Eugrammus, Corinthian modellers, exercise their art in Italy.

Cleophantus, the Corinthian, flourishes.

Malas of Chios appears as a sculptor.

Micciades, the Chian, practises sculpture.

Mnesarchus the Etrurian, the father of Pythagoras, becomes eminent as an engraver of precious stones. Dipænus and Scyllis, natives of Crete, attain great eminence in sculpturing marble. About this period flourished also Anthermus or Archeneus of Chios, Byres of Naxos, and Endoëus the Athenian.

Aristocles, the Cydonian, flourishes.

560 Perillus, probably of Agrigentum, flourishes.

LVIII.

548

LIX.

LX.

LXI.

536

LXII.

532

LXV.

LXVI.

LXVIII.

LXX.

Names of Artists, &c.

Tectæus and Angelio make the statue of the Delian
Apollo.
About this time flourished also Bupalus and Athenis of
Chios, and Theocles the Laconian, sculptors; Dontas,
Doryclidas, and Medo, all of Laconia, statuaries; and
Theodorus II., the Samian, an engraver.

544 Syadras and Chartas, Lacedæmonian statuaries, flourish
probably about this period.

540 Bathycles the Magnesian, a statuary, and Spintharus, an architect of Corinth, flourish.

About this time Antistates, Callæschrus, Antimachides, and Porinus, architects, lay the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens.

Clectas, of Sicyon, the statuary.

Demeas I. of Crotona, statuary, flourishes.

520 Ageladas of Argos, statuary, makes a statue of Anochus, a victor in the Olympic games.

516 Ageladas makes a chariot in honour of the victory of Cleosthenes at Olympia, and about the same period ennobles a victory obtained by Timasitheus.

Callo I. of Ægina, Chrysothemis and Eutelidas of Argos, and Gitiadas the Lacedæmonian, flourish as statuaries. 508 Amphicrates, the statuary, makes the figure of a lioness. Antenor makes statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Aristocles II. and his brother Canachus I., both of Sicyon, flourish as statuaries. This was the age also of Clearchus of Rhegium.

500 Hegesias and Hegias of Athens, Menæchmus and Soidas of Naupactus, Telephanes II. of Phocis, and Arcesilaus I. flourish as statuaries. Aglaopho I. of Thasos, father of POLYGNOTUS and Aristopho, exercises the art of painting. Sillax of Rhegium, the painter, flourishes.

493 Demophilus I. and Gorgasus practise the arts of painting and making plaster-casts at Rome.

Stomius, statuary, flourishes.

Glaucias of Ægina, statuary, flourishes. Pythagoras I. of Rhegium begins to exercise the art of statuary. About this time PHEIDIAS is born.

484 Ascarus, the Theban, forms for the Thessalians a statue of Jupiter out of the spoils of the Phocians. Amyclæus, Diyllus, and Chionis prepare several statues out of the spoils taken from the Thessalians by the Phocians, which are dedicated by the latter at Delphi. Aristomedo is also engaged in this undertaking.

LXXI. 4.

LXXII. LXXIII.

492

488

LXXIV.

LXXV.

LXXVI.

476

LXXVIII.

LXXIX.

LXXX.

LXXXI.

Names of Artists, &c.

480 Synnoo of Ægina, statuary, flourishes.

468

Aristomedes and Socrates, two Theban statuaries, flourish. Critias Nesiota makes statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, which are almost immediately erected.

Anaxagoras of Ægina makes a statue of Jupiter at the request of several states of Greece, which had participated in the victory over Xerxes at Salamis. Dionysius 1. and Glaucus of Argos, and Simo of Ægina, flourish. Hippodamus, an architect of Miletus, fortifies the Peiræeus at Athens.

Onatas of Ægina and Calamis make a chariot in honour of Hiero, lately deceased, which is afterwards dedicated at Olympia. Their contemporaries are Ageladas of Argos, Hegias of Athens, Calliteles, Calynthus, Hippias, Sophroniscus, and Pasiteles I. Ageladas and Hippias here mentioned were instructors of Pheidias.

464 Demophilus II. of Himera, and Neseas of Thasos, flourish as painters.

460

Sostratus I., statuary; Mico I. of Athens, statuary and painter; and probably Olympus, statuary, flourish. To this period likewise belong POLYGNOTUS and Aristopho, painters of Thasos, and Dionysius of Colopho, a painter, and probably Cimo of Cleonæ, together with Arcesilaus II. and Nicanor of Paros, who practised the same art. 456 Ptolichus of Corcyra, statuary, flourishes. Soon after this year Ageladas II. of Argos prepares a statue of Jupiter for the Messenians occupying Naupactus.

Acestor of Cnossus, and Ptolichus of Ægina, flourish as statuaries; Scymnus as a statuary and engraver, and Eucadmus as a sculptor.

PHEIDIAS, of Athens, attains great eminence.

448 Alcamenes, an Athenian, and Agoracritus the Parian, both
pupils of PHEIDIAS, flourish as statuaries and sculptors.
In this period likewise Critias Nesiota is still living, and
the following artists are engaged in their several pro-
fessions: Cydo and Diodotus as statuaries; Xenocles the
Athenian, a statuary; Pananus the Athenian, cousin of
PHEIDIAS by the father's side; Plistænetus, the brother
of PHEIDIAS, and Timagoras of Chalcis-painters.
Libo, the Elæan, builds the Temple of Zeus Olympius.
Mys, the engraver, flourishes.

444

438

PHEIDIAS dedicates his statue of Athene, made of ivory and gold, in the Parthenon. The Vestibule of the Acropolis commenced.

LXXXII.

452

LXXXIII.

LXXXIV.

LXXXV. 3.

LXXXV. 4.

437

LXXXVI.

4.

LXXXVII.

3.

LXXXVIII.

LXXXIX.

XC.

424
420

Names of Artists, &c.

436

433

432

430

PHEIDIAS Commences his statue of Zeus Olympius, with the
assistance of Colotes of Paros. About this time flourish
Ictinus, Callicrates, Metagenes II. of Athens, Stypax of
Cyprus, architects, and, probably, Carpio.

Corabus and Mnesicles, architects; Ctesilaus, a statuary,
and probably Demetrius III., a statuary, flourish. This
appears to have been the period when Socrates, the phi-
losopher, bestowed attention on sculpture.
PHEIDIAS dedicates his statue of Zeus Olympius.
PHEIDIAS dies.

Myro of Eleuthera, and POLYCLETUS I. of Argos, attain
great eminence as statuaries. About this time flourished
also the following statuaries: Callo I. of Elis, Gor-
gias of Laconia, Phradmo of Argos, Scopas of Elis, and
Theocosmus of Megara.

Calamis makes his statue of Apollo, the Averter of evil. 428 Amphio of Cnossus, statuary, and Pæonius II. of Mende in Thrace, statuary and sculptor, flourish. Sostratus of Rhegium flourished as a statuary. POLYCLETUS I. of Argos makes his statue of Here. Apellas, Dionysiodorus, Niceratus of Athens, Nicodamus of Mænalus, Pericletus and Sostratus of Chios, flourish as statuaries. Praxias and Androsthenes, two Athenian sculptors, decorate with their productions the temple at Delphi. Cleisthenes, the architect, flourishes. Eupalamus, the Argive, rebuilds the Heraum near My

cenæ.

To this period we should in all probability refer Callimachus κατατηξίτεχνος.

412 Lycius, the son of Myro, flourishes as a statuary. To this period we should probably refer Thericles.

Phryno, the statuary, flourishes.

Antiphanes of Argos and Aristander of Paros flourish as statuaries. A large group of statues is dedicated at Delphi by the Lacedemonians, in commemoration of their victory at Egos-potamos, made by the following artists: Alypus, Patrocles I. and Canachus II. of Sicyon, Demeas II. of Clitor, Piso of Calaurea, Samolas of Arcadia, Theocosmus of Megara, and Pisander. Alcamenes makes statues of Athene and Heracles, which are dedicated in acknowledgment of the overthrow of the Thirty Tyrants.

Aristocles IV. flourishes as a sculptor.

XCII.

XCIII.

408

XCV. 4.

397

XCVI.

396

XCVII.

XCVIII.

C.

CII.

Names of Artists, &c.

XEUXIS of Heraclea, the distinguished painter, flourishes. To this period we must refer, also, Androcydus of Cyzicus, and Eupompus of Sicyon, painters; Naucydes the Argive, brother and instructor of Polycletus II., who was also engaged as an artist about this time; Dinomenes, Callicles of Megara, and Dædalus II. of Sicyon, all statuaries.

PARRHASIUS of Ephesus, Timanthes of Sicyon, Pauso, and Colotes II. flourish as painters. Pantias of Chios, a statuary, flourishes.

392 SCOPAS, the celebrated Parian sculptor, builds the temple of Pallas at Tegea. Aristodemus I., a painter, flourishes. 388 To this period belong Ctesidemus, the painter, and the following statuaries, all of whom were pupils of POLYCLETUS I.; Alexis, Asopodorus, Aristides, Phryno, Dino, Athenodorus, and Demeas II.

380 Polycletus II. of Argos, Cleo I. of Sicyon, Democritus I. of Sicyon, flourish as statuaries, and Pamphilus I. of Amphipolis, and Euxenidas, as painters.

372

The following statuaries flourish; Aristogito of Thebes, Cephisodotus I. of Athens, Dædalus II. of Sicyon, Hypatodorus, Pausanias I. of Apollonia, Polycles I., Xenophon the Athenian, Callistonicus the Theban, and probably Olympiosthenes and Strongylio. Demophon the Messenian, and Eucleides II. the Athenian, practise sculpture; and Miccio, and Ephorus the Ephesian, the instructor of APELLES, flourish as painters.

LYSIPPUS, the Sicyonian, first appears as an artist.
Euphranor, the distinguished statuary and painter, and
PRAXITELES, eminent in the arts of statuary and sculpture,
flourish. To this period, also, belong Euphronides, and
Herodotus the Olynthian, statuaries, Cydias of Cythnos,
and Nicias I., painters. The last of these artists assisted
PRAXITELES in the decoration of his statues.

Nicomachus I., a Theban painter, flourishes.
SCOPAS, the Parian, engaged with other artists in building
the Temple of Diana at Ephesus. Brietes of Sicyon,
the father of Pausias, flourishes as a painter. Pamphilus
I., of Amphipolis, is still living.

APELLES just appears as a painter. Aristides II. of Thebes,
Echio, and Therimachus, all painters, now flourish.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, built by Phiteus and Saty-
rus, is about this time decorated with figures by SCOPAS,
PRAXITELES, Leochares, Timotheas, Bryaxis, and Pythis.
This was probably the age of the statuary Chæreas.